Readings in the History of the Soil Conservation Service
Author: Douglas Helms
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 178
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RCA III, a Historical Study of Soil Conservation in the Driftless Area
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegacies of Dust
Author: Douglas Sheflin
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2019-06-01
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1496215397
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was the worst ecological disaster in American history. When the rains stopped and the land dried up, farmers and agricultural laborers on the southeastern Colorado plains were forced to adapt to new realities. The severity of the drought coupled with the economic devastation of the Great Depression compelled farmers and government officials to combine their efforts to achieve one primary goal: keep farmers farming on the Colorado plains. In Legacies of Dust Douglas Sheflin offers an innovative and provocative look at how a natural disaster can dramatically influence every facet of human life. Focusing on the period from 1929 to 1962, Sheflin presents the disaster in a new light by evaluating its impact on both agricultural production and the people who fueled it, demonstrating how the Dust Bowl fractured Colorado's established system of agricultural labor. Federal support, combined with local initiative, instituted a broad conservation regime that facilitated production and helped thousands of farmers sustain themselves during the difficult 1930s and again during the drought of the 1950s. Drawing from western, environmental, transnational, and labor history, Sheflin investigates how the catastrophe of the Dust Bowl and its complex consequences transformed the southeastern Colorado agricultural economy.
Marketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory
Author: Robert E. Mitchell
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2020-05-04
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1476680671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this new institutional economics study examines the failure of frontier farms in the antebellum Northwest Territory, where legislatively-created imperfect markets and poor surveying resulted in massive investment losses for both individual farmers and the national economy. The history of farming and spatial settlement patterns in the Great Lakes region is described, with specific focus on the State of Michigan viewed through a case study of Midland County. Inter and intra-state differences in soil endowments, public and private promoters of site-specific investment opportunities, time trends in settled populations and the experiences of individual investors are covered in detail.
The American Planning Tradition
Author: Robert Fishman
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: 2000-06-15
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780943875965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday with everything urban and public perpetually in crisis, we turn towards the figures who shaped our cities and left a legacy of public spaces. This work reevaluates those planners and their times in a series of essays.
When Government Helped
Author: Sheila Collins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0199990697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers new perspectives on comparisons of the intersection of economic and environmental crises of these two periods.
FDR and the Environment
Author: D. Woolner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-17
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0230100678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates that there is much about the New Deal that can be characterized as environmental, once one substitutes the word 'environmental' for 'conservation'. Indeed, the scholarship that is contained within this extraordinary book will help correct the widely held view that the New Deal is virtually a blank space in the history of modern environmentalism. In fact, the New Deal carried forward and greatly extended the work of the Progressive Conservation Era, and in many ways helped establish the foundation for the modern environmental movement.
Aldo Leopold's Odyssey, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Author: Julianne Lutz Warren
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2016-05-24
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1610917537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2006, Julianne Lutz Warren (née Newton) asked readers to rediscover one of history’s most renowned conservationists. Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey was hailed by The New York Times as a “biography of ideas,” making “us feel the loss of what might have followed A Sand County Almanac by showing us in authoritative detail what led up to it.” Warren’s astute narrative quickly became an essential part of the Leopold canon, introducing new readers to the father of wildlife ecology and offering a fresh perspective to even the most seasoned scholars. A decade later, as our very concept of wilderness is changing, Warren frames Leopold’s work in the context of the Anthropocene. With a new preface and foreword by Bill McKibben, the book underscores the ever-growing importance of Leopold’s ideas in an increasingly human-dominated landscape. Drawing on unpublished archives, Warren traces Leopold’s quest to define and preserve land health. Leopold's journey took him from Iowa to Yale to the Southwest to Wisconsin, with fascinating stops along the way to probe the causes of early land settlement failures, contribute to the emerging science of ecology, and craft a new vision for land use. Leopold’s life was dedicated to one fundamental dilemma: how can people live prosperously on the land and keep it healthy, too? For anyone compelled by this question, the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey offers insight and inspiration.
Staking Out the Terrain
Author: Jeanne Nienaber Clarke
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780791429457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original approach to the study of bureaucratic behavior that formulates a model of agency power supported by analysis of seven federal natural resource agencies.
Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M
Author: Henry C. Dethloff
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1623493048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe abundance of agricultural production enjoyed in the United States is the result of a federal-state partnership that relies on land grant universities to respond to the needs of society through research, invention, problem-solving, outreach, and applied science and engineering. The Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, established in 1915, has been an important part of that effort. Over the hundred years of its existence, it has successfully tackled the challenges of mechanization, electrification, irrigation, harvest, transport, and more to the benefit of agriculture in Texas, the United States, and the world. In this book, historian Henry Dethloff and current department chair Stephen Searcy explore the history of the department—its people, its activity, its growth—and project the department’s future for its second century, when its primary task will be to sustainably help meet the needs of a predicted 9.6 billion Earth residents and to recognize that societal food concerns are focused more and more on sustainable production and human health.
